A Langley man was taken to Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday night after being rear-ended on his motorcycle in Bothell.

Robert McElhinny was driving home from work on his motorcycle when he was rear-ended. His son, Josh McElhinny, said the offending driver was traveling over 50 mph when the car struck his father and smashed him into a concrete median. When the emergency responders arrived, he was unconscious.

McElhinny sustained a litany of injuries that required several surgeries and blood transfusions, his son said Friday morning. He has several cracked ribs, a broken right arm, bruises and lacerations. There is no internal bleeding in his vital organs, though his left arm was essentially crushed resulting in a severed artery and nerve damage.

The injury was so severe that his son said the medical professionals at the Seattle hospital have yet to get a pulse from his left arm. He may lose the limb, though more testing is needed. In an email from his wife, Teresa McElhinny, she said that the pulse has been “off again, on again,” and that he was put back on intubation.

“At this point, they expect him to live,” Josh McElhinny said.

“It’s just frustrating because they just can’t stop the bleeding,” he added.

He’s now conscious and had the breathing tubes removed Friday morning.

“He’s able to talk,” his son said.

A web page on CaringBridge.com was set up for people to send their condolences and get well wishes to the McElhinny family. Josh McElhinny said messages to the family there are preferred to phone calls or text messages, as the family spends time with Robert at the hospital.

“Pray for him, and me and mom and keep us in your thoughts,” his son said.

In the email, Teresa McElhinny thanked people for their messages.

“We are certainly grateful for the tremendous support in so many different ways from our beloved Whidbey community as well as friends and family spread out all over the place,” she wrote. “Everyone’s outpouring of love and concern is both encouraging and humbling.”